Couldn't find a thread on her. First album was really good, and she just put out a second that's a grower. Thoughts?
― AlexPh, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think the new one is a big improvement upon the first, which was pleasant but a little samey. "One Day" is the standout track for me. I've been aching for a studio version ever since hearing her play it on pitchfork.tv earlier this year. But it's kinda funny, i like the sound of it more coming out of tinny laptop speakers than out of my regular speakers or headphones. It's got this great familiar am radio vibe.
― Z S, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like the new one a bunch. it seems a super lazy comparison for an acoustic guitar player but the first half of the lp is kinda early-dylan, to me. she does the steel pedal thing without seeming too retro or affected-country, too.
― inimitable bowel syndrome (schlump), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sharon covering "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me"http://soundcloud.com/morrisday/sharon-van-etten-last-night-i-dreamt-somebody-that-loved-me
― Pinktits, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
thanks!
she's a marvellous wonder, although i'm a sop who prefers acoustic-y melancholy to midtempo electric
― sean gramophone, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Finally giving her an ear -- yeah, this is good stuff.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 February 2011 06:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love "Epic", which I discovered last autumn on a joyous record store crawl around Williamsburg.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 February 2011 13:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
she has a good angriness
― schlump, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i fell pretty hard for 'epic' - among other things, it is catchy as hell, i had a different song from it buzzing around my head every day for a good while
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Monday, 14 February 2011 18:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
I pretty much found because I was in love to be exhausting and unpleasant, possibly because I was introduced to her by hearing her on that Antlers record that was also exhausting and unpleasant, but 'epic' is just so well put-together and her show opening for Junip in which she played it in its entirety was one of the best things I saw last year. really looking forward to the next one, which I guess is being worked on with guy from the National now
― rope (lloydwabbitt), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Interviewing her in an hour and a half. Anybody have a burning question or two for her?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
My feature/interview is up. Cool person!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Trying this again, apparently they had to adjust the URL for whatever reason:
http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-03-24/music/sharon-van-etten-epic-detroit-bar/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 March 2011 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
good lord, this new one is awesome
― SELF DEPORTATION (Z S), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
You have the full thing? I hate you.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i....i'm sorry
"give out" is esp great, early on
― SELF DEPORTATION (Z S), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/29/145731033/first-listen-sharon-van-etten-tramp
Really enjoying this so far.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is real good.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 6 February 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was really disappointed the first time i played this, really disappointed, bc i think the last two are so good & that serpents was amazing in a whole new way. but then i played it again & liked it some more. i don't like the beirut guy. but i'm gonna stick with it. expect progress updates
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 6 February 2012 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Finally listened to her latest on the NPR stream after seeing a big Sunday Washington Post interview and reading that my local alt-weekly arts editor loves this--- eh, it's ok. Maybe I need to give it more time. On first listen I do not hear enough variety.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
tramp is a very strong record. not my sort of thing, usually, but this is great and really catchy in a classy, subtle way
― Delia Derbyshire's Complete Moog Cookery Course (electricsound), Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's weird to me that this thread isn't drowning in hateration, her rise to prominence is prime indie-hater bait
― plastic surgery dizbusters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 March 2012 07:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
how so
― Delia Derbyshire's Complete Moog Cookery Course (electricsound), Saturday, 17 March 2012 09:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like Tramp just fine but it's no patch on Epic.
― Simon H., Saturday, 17 March 2012 12:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love Warsaw. I think the record in a whole is a grower. Anyway it's good breakup listening.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
her rise to prominence is prime indie-hater bait
Well, the new one is awash in guests from Beirut, the National, Wye Oak, Walkmen, Doveman, Julianna Barwick. If you have a problem with current indie, you'd have a problem with this. Me, I thought it sounded a bit like the first Breeders record retrofitted for NPR listeners, but not necessarily in a bad way.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
not sure what you are on about there, the first breeders? was that pod? this sharon van etten has nothing to do with that kind of demoish sounding indie rock. it's more of a songwriter album in the vein of joni mitchell, cat power etc. excellent stuff, great hooks esp. the first five songs, a dreamy voice which goes to the bone, i didn't dig into the lyrics yet but apparently they are very personal about her trying to survive on the roads of new york, she had no home when she recorded the album. i'd like to know if warsaw has got something to do with joy division, probably not but what hell of a song!
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you want to compare it with a first album that would be much more the first michelle shocked, the texas campfire tapes though this is much more polished and arranged, it is not her first album and it shows.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
it surely is but maybe she just won't be big enough to circulate outside the npr-indie enclave.
― j., Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm a latecomer to her -- have been sort of aware of her as somebody I wanted to check out -- but noticing that she's coming to town next week prompted me to get Epic and Tramp. Enjoying both, need some time to sink in, but I'm looking forward to the show.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 20 April 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
After going back and hearing Epic, I definitely prefer that one. The new one gets too bogged down by that Brooklyn indie approach, which I don't think suits her as well.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 April 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
what would you say defines "that Brooklyn indie approach" exactly?
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 20 April 2012 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol i know that was super weird and vague, i guess just the vibe of the whole album, it sounded a lot like latter-day National albums (which makes sense, given the producer) and Walkmen albums. which is fine for those bands, but i don't think the sound works as well with Sharon's voice. i think she needs something a little more gritty and raw and not so, i don't know, NPRish.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 April 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dag, she puts on a good show. Terrific performer, great lovely voice, she's touring with a really sharp band. Nice range in the set, from quiet murmury moments to some real howling anthemic rock.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
warsaw's cool
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
tipsy otm.her show in manchester was spellbinding from start to finish, with a tiptop backing band to boot.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah i like the new album quite a bit but i also keep just playing this song over and over
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
did anybody hear the demos recordi wanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv20Hlfl1Po
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
blorp
i am listening to this & it kinda slays, fwiw
it's super messy & raw. i was not so crazy about the record & this is like the antidote; not in sweetly recasting the songs as lighter, whisperier sve-classic slow jams but in being boombox & drum machine recordings of someone howling their songs into shape. it's a $7 cdr from the label, also.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Sunday, 23 December 2012 07:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
uuuugh, these are so, so much better. for the love of god, please never record with the national again sharon van etten. that demo version of serpents is an eye opener.
― "reading specialist" (Z S), Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:57 (5 months ago) Permalink
serpents was actually the song i liked on the record, i think it works, i am still trying to find the 7" because the b-side is nice, too. & iirc julianna barwick was playing on the record somewhere, so i can sorta feel the idea of SVE + group, rather than just doing her one man band thing. but then there is the guy from beirut singing & it's just, just what is this, you know. the serpents demo is killer anyway, yes. i hear she is real into leonard cohen, it's kinda like hearing this, the pre-edit jam:
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:24 (5 months ago) Permalink
some of the lyrical swaps in serpents are kinda fascinating btw
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/M4TCAjfGN1M --A video of Sharon covering touring mate Nick Cave's _Boatman's Call_ cut, "People They Ain't No Good", during a radio session. It's really lovely. Skip to 1:20 for the performance.
― Darvin H.A.M. (AlexPh), Sunday, 13 January 2013 08:17 (4 months ago) Permalink